by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Essay
Lacey, WA To look at me, a tailored lady of a certain age, you’d never guess I once got around by stepping onto roadways and flagging rides, braving all manner of weather and driver, knocking about without advance reservations. In fact, I am incredulous now: I prefer...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Essay
Who will raise the radioactive issue—torture—and restore America’s soul? To gauge by the rising din of issue-talk, the 2006-08 electoral Games have begun. Candidates running for Congressional seats have already taken a few laps; the presidential candidates...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Essay
Experience, as commonly understood, produces valuable things—wisdom, perspective, resilience, philosophical equanimity, wit. Experience knows lots about Life, supposedly; or at least it can tell, as Shakespeare put it, “a hawk from a handsaw.” Its most powerful...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Essay
“Estuary,” collage, by Barbara Lee Smith Nature. Once upon a time, artists and poets contemplated Nature as one of the eternal verities, along with Life, Death, Love. In modern times, the artist’s attention has been diverted to the disjunctions of the...
by Carla Seaquist | Feb 18, 2009 | Essay
Who will win: Samuel Beckett or Barack Obama? How curious it is that, after the historic election and inauguration of the Candidate of Hope, Waiting for Godot, the great Modernist play about hope forever deferred, is having a major, all-star remounting in New York,...
